Thirty five young people from around rural Australia gathered together in Canberra to debate issues important to them, looking at ways of motivating communities, making changes in regional lives and, in the process, creating life-long friendships....

The mining boom is certainly creating jobs, opportunities and development but the increasing prevelance of fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workforces in regional Australia leaves many communities fearful they will be locked out of the substantial benefits of mines in their neighbourhood. ...

Peter Sutton's book "The Politics of Suffering" claims that the progressive Aboriginal policies of the 1970s - self determination, landrights, outstations movements - have left remote Aborigines trapped by their own cultures....

A writer from Munich, in Germany explains how he assists a friend in remote Australia receive podcasts of Bush telegraph, and there's advice on conserving flood damaged items www.slq.qld.gov.au/services/pres/advice...